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Damnation Road

It's the last chance for Jacob Gamble, Rough Rider, outlaw and man of a few principles. Nearing 50 and flat broke, Jacob bends his own rule about robbing trains. But by the time he reaches the payroll safe on a Rock Island train, he finds another thief there first with a bullet in his head. Jacob is caught holding the bag--and turned into hero. A broke hero.

In A Place Called Damnation Road. . .

Shackled by unwanted fame, running from a life gone wrong, and raising the suspicions of a Pinkerton detective, Jacob listens to a woman: beautiful and tattooed by the Indians who seized her as a child. Olivia Weathers knows of a treasure hidden in a cave along the Jornada del Muerto--a merciless hundred mile stretch of hell on earth guarded by Apache warriors. Now, Jacob will follow Olivia into the most savage and deadly territory in the southwest--where few ever come out of Canyon Diablo alive.

About the author (2010)

Max McCoy is an award-winning novelist and veteran crime reporter whose fiction has been called "powerful" by USA Today. His novels have ranged from thrillers to Westerns to paranormal mysteries, and he's won two Spur awards for best novel from the Western Writers of America. He's also written four original Indiana Jones novels, and the novelization of Steven Spielberg's epic miniseries Into the West. A member of Mystery Writers of America, McCoy makes his home at the edge of the rugged Flint Hills of east central Kansas, where he teaches at Emporia State University. Visit him at maxmccoy.com.